Have you ever lost some cutlery at work? You’ve possibly got some sort of communal kitchen area with a sink, a boiler and somewhere to make a cup of tea but your company won’t provide you with any teaspoons. You bring your own in and before you know it some bugger has filched it.
Well, you’ll [...]
I’ve not really read many Science Fiction novels even though my interests suggest that I’d enjoy them. I’ve read a lot of horror and fantasy stuff but have never really got around to reading much Asimov and the like.
The stuff I have read has been excellent, especially The Gap Cycle by Stephen Donaldson. I’ve not [...]
Mark’s Daily Apple has an interesting blog post detailing some remedies and other methods used to help people get through the flu season. He offers advice on the correct foods to eat, vitamins to take and even the best way to blow your nose.
The very best thing about the article, of course, is that he’s [...]
Wednesday afternoons sees me lugging this old frame around a football pitch for an hour. You’d think that at 38 I’d have had a good bash at playing football but, sadly, I’ve never really played it for any decent length of time.
I’m probably too old to start now but most of the people I’m playing [...]
Well, this is all over the UK news at the moment but we had the biggest earthquake for 25 years last night. We were woken up just before 1am by our apartment block shaking.
As earthquakes go it was a rather mild 5.2 on the Richter scale but the epicentre wasn’t too far away in Lincolnshire [...]
If you were having a vasectomy would you blog about it?
Would you blog about it while it was happening? This guy did.
3:47 procedure begins. much pulling on scrotum and squeezing to identify vas. warning the local anesthetic will sting. two injections into cutaneous tissue-slight sting. injections directly into vas felt deeper and radiated into lower [...]
The BBC has a very interesting opinion piece from Rebecca Swift, the Director of Creative Planning at Getty Images. She’s written about the recent trends in advertising for businesses to make their products appear more environmentally friendly by using green images.
As a company that generates imagery for the news wires and the world of [...]
There’s been oodles of discussion about file-sharing over the years. It’s endemic among the music hounds out there who can’t/won’t pay for music so just download it from whoever. I’ve taken the high horse attitude over this, mostly, where I’ve righteously stated that downloading music over Limeware etc is morally wrong and that people should [...]
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